Locke Pretty Much Nails it-Basketball
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As for Stansbury, he's embracing the underdog role. "We know no one expects us to win up there. We'll be underdogs up there, but it's an opportunity to go on the road and win," he said.
I know you just want to rip into Stansbury if he happens to lose Saturday, and say "good, i told you so" if he happens to win, but what seriously makes you expect us to win, on the road in the SEC vs a top 25 team?
So you have just thrown in the towel for the season. We are talking about playing at Ole Miss, not UK. It is an in-state rivalry and I do expect to win.
We have big advantage in the low post and in rebounding, any good coach would exploit that advantage and hopefully win the game.
We have to play big against Ole Miss and pound the ball inside, get their two big men in foul trouble and it's game over.
Saying that, Stans will probably start Turner at the 4 and we lose by 15.</p>
We have big advantage in the low post and in rebounding, any good coach would exploit that advantage and hopefully win the game.
We have to play big against Ole Miss and pound the ball inside, get their two big men in foul trouble and it's game over.
Saying that, Stans will probably start Turner at the 4 and we lose by 15.</p>
1. How well do we shoot from the perimeter -- and so far we haven't shot it that well when we play decent teams that actually get out and defend us.
2. Does White or Warren go off on us for career high type numbers which we seem to be so susceptible to giving up (still have Shan Foster nightmares from a few years back).
2. Does White or Warren go off on us for career high type numbers which we seem to be so susceptible to giving up (still have Shan Foster nightmares from a few years back).
is what makes it a close game with us possibly winning or we get blown out.
Point #2 doesn't matter as long as we succeed on Point #1.
Point #2 doesn't matter as long as we succeed on Point #1.
Someone, I want to say patdog maybe, pointed out on Nafoom that your rebounding advantage doesn't match up well with us.
We are pretty good at offensive rebounding. You are pretty good at defensive rebounding. That should be a good match up.
Your weakness in rebounding is offensive rebounding. Our weakness is defensive rebounding. So, your rebounding strength doesn't match up to where it takes advantage of our rebounding weakness. We give up way too many offensive rebounds, but you don't get many offensive rebounds, so that'll be interesting to see which one wins out.
It should be an interesting game though, considering neither of us really have a gauge of how good we really are. I don't think we're Top 15. We may have that potential, but we're not there yet. I definitely think you have the potential to be better than us. Neither of us have reached our potential yet though, so it'll probably be a good match up, and I think it could easily go either way.
We are pretty good at offensive rebounding. You are pretty good at defensive rebounding. That should be a good match up.
Your weakness in rebounding is offensive rebounding. Our weakness is defensive rebounding. So, your rebounding strength doesn't match up to where it takes advantage of our rebounding weakness. We give up way too many offensive rebounds, but you don't get many offensive rebounds, so that'll be interesting to see which one wins out.
It should be an interesting game though, considering neither of us really have a gauge of how good we really are. I don't think we're Top 15. We may have that potential, but we're not there yet. I definitely think you have the potential to be better than us. Neither of us have reached our potential yet though, so it'll probably be a good match up, and I think it could easily go either way.
But you insist that Stansbury doesn't know what he's doing, implying that we won't be well prepared for the game on Saturday. I'm just curious that since you thought this why you would expect to win.
I'm of the thought that we'll win if we shoot the outside shot well and therefore open up the inside. If we're not hitting the trey, the inside pass won't be as open and we all know how skilled our team is at passing and ballhandling.
I'm of the thought that we'll win if we shoot the outside shot well and therefore open up the inside. If we're not hitting the trey, the inside pass won't be as open and we all know how skilled our team is at passing and ballhandling.
We can not go play small, it plays into their game. Stans has to figure this out or we lose unless we shoot 50% or higher from 3 point land.
maroonmania said:
I think that was what was pointed out in that thread. And if you do go small with 4 guards on the perimeter and Varnado inside, it'll be playing into our hands, because we won't have as much difficulty preventing you from getting offensive rebounds. That's been the biggest problem for us in both of our losses. Sure we turned the ball over in our losses, and sure we didn't play great defense in either loss, but the biggest thing that got us in both games were the second chance points.
Well if you are confident we are going to win buy tickets to the game in oxford this weekend. No reason we can't have at least 30% or more of that stadium in maroon.
Locke states that the teams we beat during our streak were a combined 55-68. That is true but MVSU accounted for 13 losses and no wins. Remove them and we are looking at 55-55 in the other 8 games. Still not great but not the worst cupcakes in America either.
If you look at our schedule on paper it looks OK compared to some of our past schedules. St. Bonaventure, Old Dominion, UCLA, Houston, WKU, Richmond, Depaul. The names look OK but their RPIs sucks right now. Hopefully as the season goes on their RPIs will improve and make us look better, especially UCLA and Old Dominion.
If you look at our schedule on paper it looks OK compared to some of our past schedules. St. Bonaventure, Old Dominion, UCLA, Houston, WKU, Richmond, Depaul. The names look OK but their RPIs sucks right now. Hopefully as the season goes on their RPIs will improve and make us look better, especially UCLA and Old Dominion.
UCLA knocked off Cal AT Cal last night - the Cal team that some view as the favorite in the Pac -10. ODU squeaked past a bad James Madison team. Houston blew out a pretty bad Rice team on Rice's home floor. I hesitate to call that a road game since they are about 10 minutes apart, but I guess in the eyes of the RPI it is.Hanmudog said:
the outlook of a season (final possession against Richmond down 1 and against WKU down 1). Execute on those 2 possessions and we are 14-1 and sitting pretty for the NCAAs and likely ranked in the Top 20. Stink up those 2 possessions like we did and we are 12-3 with very little to hang our hat on so far as being a tourney worthy team.
but hey, no matter RPI, when a team comes in and kicks your fanny its kind of hard to play what ifs. The Richmond and WKU games were ones that if we just make one more play we win whereas Rider just ran us off our own court.